Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . Treasury Department. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

Jessye Waxman, Senior Campaign Representative, Fossil-Free Finance Campaign, Sierra Club, says climate-related shareholder resolutions give banks necessary guardrails for transition financing. These claims are a misrepresentation of resolutions that simply aim to reduce banks’ exposure to climate-related risks.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve. The risk could also manifest in strategic litigation being brought or encouraged by NGOs seeking to compel or exert pressure on investors to change investment strategy.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

Investors will be increasingly subject to direct climate litigation risk in 2024 rather than indirect risks through investments as the types of cases brought evolve. The risk could also manifest in strategic litigation being brought or encouraged by NGOs seeking to compel or exert pressure on investors to change investment strategy.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Leading US banks and insurers will face votes at their upcoming AGMs asking for policies aligned with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) net zero roadmap , after challenges to shareholder resolutions were rejected. . Risk of stranded assets . at Trillium Asset Management.? “In degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And there are wider issues around the VCMs already in operation, such as credit pricing, third-party verification and reducing the risk of greenwashing. . trillion by 2030, to boost resilience and deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts. . degrees of climate change. .

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